Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alaska

A Novel

House Rules

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Nicole Panteleakos

Virginia

Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.

Planet Earth Is Blue

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#autism #asd #neurodivergent #middlegrade

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Livid Owen Lived Here

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Julie Buxbaum

Vermont

When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.

What to Say Next

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Marti Leimbach

Minnesota

Exploring the effects of autism on a young family, a heartwarming novel by the author of Dying Young

Daniel Isn't Talking

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#hardcover #nonfiction #autism #memoir #biography #ASD #phsycology #mentalhealth #bookclub 

Oregon

The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

“One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read. It’s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • Bookish FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again. In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared. Praise for The Reason I Jump “This is an intimate book, one that brings readers right into an autistic mind.”—Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice) “Amazing times a million.”—Whoopi Goldberg, People “The Reason I Jump is a Rosetta stone. . . . This book takes about ninety minutes to read, and it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human.”—Andrew Solomon, The Times (U.K.) “Extraordinary, moving, and jeweled with epiphanies.”—The Boston Globe “Small but profound . . . [Higashida’s] startling, moving insights offer a rare look inside the autistic mind.”—Parade

The Reason I Jump

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New York

A Father's Quest to Heal His Son

After his son Rowan is diagnosed with autism, Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, takes Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersect. This is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure.

The Horse Boy

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People with Autism, and Professionals Share Their Wisdom

This compelling collection of personal accounts, from people on the autism spectrum and those who care for them, presents insights into autism from many different perspectives. The contributors describe their experiences, including reactions to diagnosis and childhood memories.

Voices from the Spectrum

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#hardcover #youngadultfiction #fiction #contemporary #youngadult #ya 

Arizona

Temple Grandin

Catherine Johnson

Hardcover book in very good condition. ￼

Maryland

Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Temple Grandin'sAnimals in Translationspeaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel.Temple's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Standing at the intersection of autism and animals, she offers unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas about both.Autistic people can often think the way animals think -- in fact, Grandin and co-author Catherine Johnson see autism as a kind of way station on the road from animals to humans -- putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate "animal talk." Temple is a faithful guide into their world, exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and, yes, even animal genius. Not only are animals much smarter than anyone ever imagined, in some cases animals are out-and-out brilliant.The sweep ofAnimals in Translationis immense, merging an animal scientist's thirty years of study with her keen perceptions as a person with autism -- Temple sees what others cannot.Among its provocative ideas, the book:argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness -- and that animals do have consciousnessapplies the autism theory of "hyper-specificity" to animals, showing that animals and autistic people are so sensitive to detail that they "can't see the forest for the trees" -- a talent as well as a "deficit"explores the "interpreter" in the normal human brain that filters out detail, leaving people blind to much of the reality that surrounds them -- a reality animals and autistic people see, sometimes all too clearlyexplains how animals have "superhuman" skills: animals have animal geniuscompares animals to autistic savants, declaring that animals may in fact be autistic savants, with special forms of genius that normal people do not possess and sometimes cannot even seeexamines how humans and animals use their emotions to think, to decide, and even to predict the futurereveals the remarkable abilities of handicapped people and animalsmaintains that the single worst thing you can do to an animal is to make it feel afraidTemple Grandin is like no other author on the subject of animals because of her training and because of her autism: understanding animals is in her blood and in her bones.

Animals in Translation

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Pennsylvania

A Picture Book about Living with Autism

"Sometimes I do not like David. He is so different. He speaks a different language. . . . David is my brother." Thus begins a moving story about David, who has autism, and his older brother, who is trying to understand the world David inhabits. David does not like when people are noisy; he does not like being hugged--not even by his own brother. David does not laugh when happy or cry when sad. He speaks his own language, which is difficult to understand at times. And he eats the same foods almost every day. However, David is a brilliant pianist and seems to have an amazing ability to communicate with the family dog. And even though he is not like most children, through the eyes of his brother we are able to see how he makes progress toward understanding his world.

Dagmar H. Mueller's moving text paired with Verena Ballhaus's expressive art help bring to light the notion that there is a lot to learn about spending time with a child with autism. The book's striking narration--told from the point of view of David's brother--will help siblings and friends of autistic children better relate to them. This is a must for any home with children with autism and for classrooms that include mainstreamed special-needs kids.

David's World

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

For Adults with Asd and Their NT Loved Ones

This is the second book in the popular 'Comic Book' series from The Girl with the Curly Hair. The 2nd Comic Book contains more fun, enlightening, insightful scenarios that may occur between people with Asperger's Syndrome and their neurotypical family and friends. This is an engaging picture book, showing how two different people may view the same situation. The Girl with the Curly Hair writes for anyone who wants to understand a different mind.

The 2nd Comic Book

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Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life...until now.


Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.


Arkansas

Ex-library

Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

Counting By 7s

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Antoinette Van Heugten

"Max Parkman, autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive, is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse-- using drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous. Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. " --Cover, p. 4.

Saving Max

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Understanding Autism

Labeled Autistic

A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle.

Emergence

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California

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

Rules

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Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism

An Emmy Award-winning art director traces her partnership with a mother from India, with whom she united in a shared effort to communicate with their severely autistic sons and discovered breakthroughs that challenged prevailing theories about autism.

Strange Son

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Kentucky

Struggling to deal with the loss of his mother, nine-year-old Sebby Lane goes with his father to live in the family's summerhouse, but as his father deteriorates in the isolation, Sebby reaches out to a favorite teacher back home, sharing his intimate thoughts in a series of letters, and to nearby children, who help him rejoin the present. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

Up High in the Trees

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The Willow Wren is based on the true story of a neurodivergent boy growing up in Nazi Germany, surviving bombing, the Hitler Youth, and Russian occupation before escaping to the west.

The Willow Wren

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James Coplan

Finally a book that goes beyond descriptions and the “why” to provide options and the “How do I…”

Create the Brightest Future for Your Child with the Best Treatment Options

Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders

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Includes an excerpt from Christmas kisses with my cowboy.

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Jodi Picoult

House Rules

Nicole Panteleakos

Planet Earth Is Blue

Sarah Dooley

Livid Owen Lived Here

Julie Buxbaum

What to Say Next

Marti Leimbach

Daniel Isn't Talking

Naoki Higashida; K. A. Yoshida (Translator); David Mitchell (Translator)

The Reason I Jump

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The Horse Boy

Cindy N. Ariel (Editor)

Voices from the Spectrum

Julie Buxbaum

What to Say Next

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Animals in Translation

Dagmar H. Mueller; Verena Ballhaus (Illustrator)

David's World

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The 2nd Comic Book

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Counting By 7s

Antoinette Van Heugten

Saving Max

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Understanding Autism

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Emergence

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Rules

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Strange Son

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Up High in the Trees

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James Coplan

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